16. Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

– Dean Koontz

17. You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.’
‘That’s why animals are so soft and huggy.

– Bill Watterson

18. Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

– Anatole France

19. Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.

– John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

20. If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

– James Herriot

20. I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.

23. The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

– Martin Luther

24. The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.

– Caroline Knapp

25. Whoever said you can’t buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

– Gene Hill

26. I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends – the fear, the terror, the pain – and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being.

– Rai Aren

27. To be a vegetarian is to disagree – to disagree with the course of things today… starvation, cruelty – we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it’s a strong one.

– Isaac Bashevis Singer

28. I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

– Hippolyte Taine

29. Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that’s why we get along.

– Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

30. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

– Colette

31. Discipline isn’t about showing a dog who’s boss; it’s about taking
responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

– Cesar Millan, Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar’s Way to Transform Your Dog … and Your Life

32. True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

33. Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

– Alfred A. Montapert

34. There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

– Anna Sewell

35. Life is life’s greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life’s scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.

– Lloyd Biggle Jr.

36. When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

37. Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.

– Louis J. Camuti

38. Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is – whether its victim is human or animal – we cannot expect things to be much better in this world.

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.

– Rachel Carson

39. I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

– James Cromwell

40. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.

44. Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

– James A. Froude

45. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution – and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.

– Jane Goodall

46. He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.